A telephony network for enabling the origination and termination of
telephone calls between one or more subscriber terminals connected to a
public packet network with an open addressing protocol and one or more
non-subscriber terminals connected to a PSTN network. Subscribers to the
telephony network have E.164 numbers mapped to their current IP address
and published by a mapping server so other subscribers and
non-subscribers can call the subscriber. The mapped information is
published on either a HTML or XML page for direct use over the Internet
by other subscribers or for use by a gateway device. The gateway device
enables non-subscribers on the PSTN to directly call subscribers. Calls
between subscribers completely by-pass the PSTN or the cellular network
if BlueTooth or Wi-Fi enabled terminals are used. Subscribers can also
call anyone with a phone number whether they are a subscriber or not.